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Journal Publications by ERS Authors

The published and forthcoming journal articles authored by ERS researchers provide a sample of the variety of professional journals in which Agency economists and social scientists publish and vet their research with the scientific community. ERS researchers (in bold) work with colleagues at the Agency and at many universities.
Adjemian, M. "Quantifying the WASDE Announcement Effect," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 94, no. 1 (2012): 238-256.
Adjemian, M., and A. Smith. "Using USDA Forecasts to Estimate the Price Flexibility of Demand for Agricultural Commodities," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 94, no. 4 (July 2012): 978-995.
Ahearn, M. "Potential Challenges for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers," Choices, vol. 26, no. 2 (2nd Quarter 2011): 6 pp.
Danielson, C., J. Klerman, M. Andrews, and D. Krimm. "Reporting Requirement and Asset Test Policies in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program," Journal Economic and Social Measurement, vol. 36, no. 4 (February 2012).
Anekwe, T., and S. Kumar. "The Effect of a Vaccination Program on Child Anthropometry: Evidence from India’s Universal Immunization Program," Journal of Public Health, Published online May 18, 2012. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fds032
Arnade, C., and K. Jones. "Crops and Livestock Productivity Measures for Selected Countries," Journal of Developing Areas, vol. 44, no. 2 (Spring 2011): 329-348.
Arnade, C., F. Kuchler, and L. Calvin. "Food Safety and Spinach Demand: A Generalized Error Correction Model," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, vol. 40, no. 2 (August 2011): 251-165.
Arnade, C., K. Jones, and K. Mathews. "One More Step to Efficient Estimation of Error Correction Models," Empirical Economics Letters, Forthcoming, May 2012.
Arnade, C., and J. Cooper. "Acreage Response under Varying Risk Preferences," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, (forthcoming).
Bagi, F., and R. Reeder. "Factors Affecting Farmer Participation in Agritourism," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, vol. 41, no. vol. 2 (August 2012): 189-199.
Baquedano, F., W. Liefert, and S. Shapouri. "World Market Integration for Export and Food Crops in Developing Countries: A Case Study for Mali and Nicaragua," Agricultural Economics, vol. 42, no. 5 (September 2011): 619-630.
Beckman, J., T. Hertel, F. Taheripour, and W. Tyner. "Structural Change in the Biofuel Era," European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 39, no. 1 (February 2012): 137-156.
Beckman, J., T. Hertel, and W. Tyner. "Validating energy-oriented CGE models," Energy Economics, vol. 33, no. 5 (September 2011): 799-806.
Beckman, J., and M. Livingston. "Effects of Manure Use and Use Restrictions on Variable Production Costs and Net Incomes for U.S. Corn Producers," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, vol. 44, no. 1 (February 2012): 83-97.
Brown, J., R. Wiser, E. Lantz, and B. Hoen. "Ex Post Analysis of Economic Impacts from Wind Power Development in U.S. Counties," Energy Economics, vol. 34, no. 6 (November 2012): 1743-1754.
Hodges, R., J. Buzby, and B. Bennett. "Postharvest Losses and Waste in Developed and Less Developed Countries: Opportunities to Improve Resource Use," Journal of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 149, Supplement S1 (November 2010):37-45. doi: 10.1017/S0021859610000936.
Buzby, J., and J. Hyman. "Total and Per Capita Value of Food Loss in the United States," Food Policy, vol. 37, (2012):561–570. Published online July 20, 2012.
Calvin, L., and P. Martin. "The U.S. Produce Industry: Labor-Intensive Commodities in a Global Market," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 94, no. 2 (November 2011):471-476.
Lino, M., and A. Carlson. "Estimating Housing Expenses on Children: A Comparison of Three Methodologies," The Journal of Legal Economics, vol. 16, no. 2 (April 2010): 61-79.
Claassen, R., J. Cooper, and F. Carriazo. "Crop Insurance, Disaster Payments and Land Use Change: The Effects of Sodsaver on Incentives for Grassland Conversion," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, vol. 43, no. 2 (May 2011): 195–211.
Coleman-Jensen, A. "U.S. Food Insecurity Status: Toward a Refined Definition," Social Indicators Research, vol. 95, no. 2 (January 2010): 215-230.
Cui, J., H. Lapan, G. Moschini, and J. Cooper. "Welfare Impacts of Alternative Biofuel and Energy Policies," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, (forthcoming).
Veronesi, M., A. Alberini, and J. Cooper. "Implications of Bid Design and Willingness-To-Pay Distribution for Starting Point Bias in Double-Bounded Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Surveys," Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 49, no. 2 (2011): 199–215.
Cooper, J., C. Zulauf, M. Langemeier, and G. Schnitkey. "Implications of Within County Yield Heterogeneity for Modeling Crop Insurance Premiums," Agricultural Finance Review, vol. 72, no. 1 (2012):134-155.
von Reichert, C., J. Cromartie, and R. Arthun. "Returning Home and Making a Living: Employment Strategies of Returning Migrants to Rural U.S. Communities," Journal of Rural and Community Development, vol. 6, no. 2 (December 2011): 35-52.
D'Souza, A. "The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention: Changing the Currents of Trade," Journal of Development Economics, vol. 91, Issue 1 (January 2012): 73–87.
D'Souza, A., and D. Jolliffe. "Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies: Household-level Evidence from Afghanistan," Journal of Development Studies, vol. 48, no. 2 (February 2012): 282-299.
Davis, C., D. Blayney, A. Muhammad, S. Yen, and J. Cooper. "A Cross-Sectional Analysis of U.S. Yogurt Demand," Journal of Food Distribution Research, vol. 41, no. 2 (July 2010): 36-45.
Davis, C., S. Yen, D. Dong, and D. Blayney. "Assessing economic and demographic factors that influence United States dairy demand," Journal of Dairy Science, vol. 94, no. 7 (July 2011): 3715-3723.
Davis, C., D. Blayney, D. Dong, S. Yen, and R. Johnson. "Will Changing Demographics Affect U.S. Cheese Demand?," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, vol. 43, no. 2 (May 2011): 259-273.
Davis, C., D. Dong, S. Yen, D. Blayney, and R. Stillman. "U.S. Fluid Milk Demand: A Disaggregated Approach," The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (February 2012): 25-50.
Delbecq, B., J. Brown, R. Florax, E. Kladivko, A. Nistor, and J. Lowenberg-deBoer. "The Impact of Drainage Water Management Technology on Corn Yields," Agronomy Journal , vol. 104, no. 4 (2012):1100-1109.
Dong, D., and H. Stewart. "Modeling A Household's Choice among Food Store Types," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 94 (2012): 702-717.
Duquette, E., N. Higgins, and J. Horowitz. "Farmer Discount Rates: Experimental Evidence," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 94, no. 2 (January 2012): 451-456.
Effland, A. "Small Farms, Cash Crops, Agrarian Ideals, and International Agriculture," Agricultural History, vol. 84, no. 1 (February 2010): 1-13.
Effland, A. "Synergies of Past and Present: The Mutual Benefits of Policy History and Policy Analysis," Agricultural History , vol. 86, no. 4 (Fall 2012).
El-Osta, H. "The Impact of Human Capital on Farm Operator Household Income," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, vol. 40, no. 1 (April 2011): 95-115.
Mishra, A., H. El-Osta, and M. Ahearn. "Determinants of Health Care Expenditures of the Self-Employed: The Case of U.S. Farm Households," Agricultural Economics, (forthcoming).
Mishra, A., H. El-Osta, and S. Shaik. "Succession Decisions in U.S. Family Farm Businesses," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 35, no. 1 (April 2010): 133-152.
Mishra, A., H. El-Osta, and S. Shaik. "Agricultural Policy Reform and Its Impact on Farm Households Income Inequality," Journal of Income Distribution, vol. 19, no. 1 (March 2010): 75-95.
Mishra, A., H. El-Osta, and M. Ahearn. "Health care expenditures of self-employed farm households in the United States," Agricultural Economics, vol. 43, no. 1 (January 2012): 75-88.
Salois, M., C. Moss, and K. Erickson. "Farm Income, Population, and Farmland Prices: A Relative Information Approach," European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 39, no. 2 (April 2012): 289-307.
Blank, S., K. Erickson, and C. Hallahan. "Rising Farmland Values: An Indicator of Regional Economic Performance or a Speculative Bubble?," Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, (2012): 57-67.
Ferrier, P. "The Economics of Agricultural and Wildlife Smuggling," Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 13, no. 2 (2010): 219-230.
Ferrier, P., and Q. Liu. "Consumer sorting of vertically differentiated goods," Economics Letters, vol. 109, no. 1 (2010): 11-13.
Ferrier, P. "Illicit Agricultural Trade," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, vol. 37, no. 2 (2008): 273-287.
Ferrier, P., and A. Leister. "Trigger Points of the Special Safeguard Mechanism," Economics Bulletin , vol. 31, no. 4 (2011): 3211-3220.
Ferrier, P., and R. Lamb. "Government regulation and quality in the US beef market," Food Policy, vol. 32, no. 1 (2007): 84-97.
Ferrier, P., and J. Buzby. "The Economic Efficiency of Sampling Size: The Case of Beef Trim," Risk Analysis: An International Journal, Online July 25, 2012.
Everson, R., and K. Fuglie. "Technology capital: The price of admission to the growth club," Journal of Productivity Analysis, vol. 33, no. 3 (June 2010): 173-190.
Gale, F., and D. Hu. "Food Safety Pressures Push Integration in China’s Agricultural Sector," AJAE, vol. 94, no. 2 (January 2012): 483-488.
Gale, F., and D. Hu. "China’s Food Quality Problem," Farm Policy Journal, (Spring 2011): 17-25.
Greene, C., and K. Smith. "Can Genetically Engineered and Organic Crops Coexist?," Choices, vol. 25, no. 2 (2nd Quarter 2010): 49-61.
Singerman, A., K. Delate, C. Chase, C. Greene, M. Livingston, S. Lence, and C. Hart. "Profitability of organic and conventional soybean production under ‘green payments’ in carbon offset programs," Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, (forthcoming).
Guthrie, J., C. Newman, K. Ralston, M. Prell, and M. Ollinger. "Understanding School Food Service Characteristics Associated with Higher Competitive Food Revenues Can Help Focus Efforts To Improve School Food Environments," Childhood Obesity, vol. 8, no. 4 (August 2012): 298-304.
Hagerman, A., B. McCarl, T. Carpenter, M. Ward, and J. O'Brien. "Emergency vaccination to control foot-and-mouth disease: implications of its inclusion as a U.S. policy option," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, vol. 34, no. 1 (January 2012): 119-146.
Hagerman, A., K. Mathews, and B. McCarl. "Economic dimensions and directions of animal disease policy," International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, (forthcoming).
Kalenkoski, C., K. Hamrick, and M. Andrews. "Time Poverty Thresholds and Rates for the U.S. Population," Social Indicators Research, vol. 104, no. 1, (October 2011): 129-155. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9732-2.
Reifschneider, M., K. Hamrick, and J. Lacey. "Exercise, Eating Patterns, and Obesity: Evidence from the ATUS and Its Eating & Health Module," Social Indicators Research, vol. 10.1007/s11205-010-9655-y.
Tuan, F., J. Hansen, A. Somwaru, M. Marchant, N. Kalaitzandonakes, and F. Zhong. "Hypothetical Commercialization of Biotech Soybeans in China: Impacts on Domestic Markets and International Trade," Journal of Life Sciences, vol. 4, no. 3 (April 2010): 52-60.
Shumway, C., J. Delgado, T. Bunch, L. Hansen, and M. Ribaudo. "Best Nitrogen Management Practices Can Reduce the Potential Flux of Nitrogen Out of the Arkansas Delta," Soil Science, vol. 177, no. 3 (March 2012): 198-209.
Loesch, C., R. Reynolds, and L. Hansen. "An Assessment of Re-directing Breeding Waterfowl Conservation Efforts Relative to Predictions of Climate Change," Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, vol. 3, no. 1 (June 2012): 1-22.
Brewer, B., C. Wilson, A. Featherstone, M. Harris, K. Erickson, and C. Hallahan. "Measuring the Financial Health of U.S. Production Agriculture," Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, (2012): 177-192.
Hellerstein, D., and N. Higgins. "The Effective Use of Limited Information: Do Bid Maximums Reduce Procurement Costs in Asymmetric Auctions?," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, vol. 39, no. 2 (April 2010): 288-304.
Hertz, T., and P. Martin. "Theme Overview: Immigration and Agriculture," Choices, vol. 27, no. 2 (2nd Quarter 2012).
Hoffmann, S. "Food Safety Policy and Economics," Oxford Handbook of Consumer Economics, Chapter 21 in Oxford Handbook of Consumer Economics, Jayson Lusk, Jutta Rossen, and Jason Shogren, eds. Oxford University Press (2011).
Hoffmann, S. "Overcoming Barriers to Integrating Economic Analysis into Risk Assessment," Risk Analysis, vol. 31, no. 9 (2011): 1345-1355.
Batz, M., S. Hoffmann, and J. Morris, Jr. "Ranking the Disease Burden of 14 Pathogens in Food Sources in the United States Using Attribution Data from Outbreak Investigations and Expert Elicitation," J. Food Protection , vol. 75, no. 7: 1270-77.
Hoffmann, S., M. Batz, and J. Morris, Jr. "Annual Cost of Illness and Quality-Adjusted Life Year Losses in the United States Due to 14 Foodborne Pathogens," J. Food Protection , vol. 75, no. 7 (July 2012): 1291-1302.
Hoffmann, S., P. Qin, A. Krupnick, B. Badrakh, S. Batbaatar, E. Altangerel, and L. Sereeter. "The Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions in Mongolia," Resources and Energy Economics, vol. 34, no. 4: 493-513.
Huang, K., and S. Huang. "Consumer welfare effects of increased food and energy prices," Applied Economics, vol. 44, (2012): 2527-2536.
Huang, K., and S. Huang. "Changes in the Nutrient Content of American Diets," Health Economics Review, vol. 1: no. 19 (2011), 11 pp.
Huang, S., and K. Huang. "Marketing Effects of U.S. Fresh Produce Imports," Journal of Agribusiness, (forthcoming).
Ifft, J., D. Roland-Holst, and D. Zilberman. "Consumer Valuation of Safety Labeled Free Range Chicken: Results of a Field Experiment in Hanoi," Agricultural Economics, (forthcoming).
Johnson, R., D. Doye, D. Lalman, D. Peel, K. Raper, and C. Chung. "Factors Affecting Adoption of Recommended Management Practices in Stocker Cattle Production," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, vol. 42, no. 1 (February 2010): 15-30.
Baldwin, K., K. Foster, and K. Jones. "A Stochastic Approach to Evaluating Livestock Marketing Policy Initiatives," African Journal of Agriculture and Resource Economics, vol. 6, no. 3:104-117.
Jones, K., A. Muhammad, and K. Mathews. "Source-Differentiated Analysis of Exchange Rate Effects on U.S. Beef Imports," International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, (forthcoming).
Baldwin, K., and K. Jones. "U.S. Citrus Import Demand: Seasonality and Substitution," Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing, (forthcoming).
Jones, K., S. Wozniak, and L. Walters. "Did the Proposed Country of Origin Law Affect Product Choices: The Case of Salmon," Journal of Food Products Marketing, (forthcoming).
Zhen, C., M. Wohlgenant, S. Karns, and P. Kaufman. "Habit Formation and Demand for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 93, no. 1 (2011): 175-193.
Key, N., and S. Sneeringer. "Carbon Markets and Methane Digesters: Potential Implications for the Dairy Sector," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, vol. 43, no. 4 (November 2011): 1-22.
Key, N., and G. Tallard. "Mitigating Methane Emissions from Livestock: A Global Analysis of Sectoral Policies," Climate Change, vol. 112, no. 2 (May 2012): 387-414.
Key, N., and S. Sneeringer. "Carbon Emissions, Renewable Electricity and Profits: Comparing Alternative Policies to Promote Anaerobic Digesters in Dairies," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (August 2012): 139-157.
Kim, C., G. Schaible, J. Lewandrowski, and U. Vasavada. "Managing Invasive Species in the Presence of Endogenous Technology Change with Uncertainty," Risk Analysis, vol. 30, no. 2 (February 2010): 250-260.
Cho, S., E. Yu, R. Roberts, S. Kim, and D. Lee. "Applying Directed Acyclic Graphs to Assist Specification of a Hedonic Model," Housing Studies, (forthcoming).
Kuchler, F. "Is it Food Quality or Quantity that Responds to Changing Income?," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, vol. 33, no. 2 (2011): 205-221.
Kuchler, F., B. Krissoff, and D. Harvey. "Do Consumers Respond to Country-of-Origin Labeling?," Journal of Consumer Policy, vol. 33, no. 4 (2010): 323-337.
Burnett, P., T. Kuethe, and C. Price. "Consumer Preferences for Locally Grown Produce: An Analysis of Willingness-to-Pay and Geographic Scale," Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, vol. 2, no. 1 (November 2011): 1-10.
Kuethe, T. "Spatial Fragmentation and the Value of Residential Housing," Land Economics, vol. 88, no. 1 (February 2012): 16-27.
Kuethe, T., and A. Borchers. "Farmland Assessment Through Multiple Regression Analysis," Journal of Extension, vol. 50, no. 3 (June 2012).
Kuethe, T., J. Ifft, and M. Morehart. "The Influence of Urban Areas on Farmland Values," Choices, vol. 26, no. 2 (2nd Quarter 2011): 7 pp.
Kuethe, T., and R. Keeney. "Environmental Externalities and Residential Property Values: Externalized Costs Along the House Price Distribution," Land Economics, vol. 88, no. 2 (May 2012): 241-250.
Kuethe, T., and M. Morehart. "The Agricultural Resource Management Survey: An Information System for Production Agriculture," Agricultural Finance Review, vol. 72, no. 2 (Fall 2012): 191-200.
Kuethe, T., and M. Morehart. "The Profit Impacts of Risk Management Tool Adoption," Agricultural Finance Review, vol. 72, no. 1 (2012): 104-116
Leibtag, E., and A. Nevo. "Analyzing the Timing and Quantity of Consumer Food Purchases and the Consumer Price Index," Journal of Economic Perspective, (forthcoming).
Meyerhoeffer, C., and E. Leibtag. "A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down: The Relationship between Food Prices and Medical Expenditures on Diabetes," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 92, no. 5 (2010).
Leister, A. "Potential Frequency and Intensity of the Special Safeguard Mechanism," African Technology Development Forum, vol. 8 (1/2), (2011): 54-65.
Liefert, W. "Decomposing Changes in Agricultural Producer Prices," Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 62, no. 1 (2011): 119-136.
Liefert, W., O. Liefert, and M. Shane. "Russia's Agricultural Imports: Will the High Growth of the 2000s Continue?," EuroChoices, vol. 9, no. 3 (2010): 43-49.
Liefert, W., P. Westcott, and J. Wainio. "Alternative Policies to Agricultural Export Bans That are Less Market-Distorting," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 94, no. 2 (January 2012), 435-441.
Liefert, W., and O. Liefert. "Russian Agriculture During Transition: Performance, Global Impact, and Outlook," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, vol. 34, no. 1 (Spring 2012), 37-75.
Lin, B., S. Yen, D. Dong, and D. Smallwood. "Economic Incentives for Dietary Improvement Among Food Stamp Recipients," Contemporary Economic Policy, vol. 28, no. 4 (2010): 524-36.
Lin, B., T. Smith, J. Lee, and K. Hall. "Measuring Weight Outcomes for Obesity Intervention Strategies: The Case of a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax," Economics and Human Biology, vol. 9, no. 4 (2011): 329-341.
Chang, H., A. Mishra, and M. Livingston. "Agricultural policy and its impact on fuel usage: Empirical evidence from farm household analysis," Applied Energy, vol. 88, no. 1 (January 2011): 348-353.
Livingston, M., and A. Mishra. "Risk attitudes and premiums of U.S. corn and soybean producers: an empirical investigation," Empirical Economics, (forthcoming).
Low, S., and S. Weiler. "Employment Risk, Returns, and Entrepreneurship," Economic Development Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3 (August 2012): 238-251.
Markley, D., and S. Low. "Wealth, Entrepreneurship, and Rural Livelihoods," Choices, vol. 27, no. 1 (1st Quarter 2012).
Low, S., and D. McFadden. "Will Local Foods Influence American Diets?," Choices, vol. 27, no. 1 (1st Quarter 2012).
MacDonald, J., and S. Wang. "Foregoing Subtherapeutic Antibiotics: The Impact on Broiler Grow-out Operations," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 79-98.
MacDonald, S., S. Pan, A. Somwaru, and F. Tuan. "China's Role in World Cotton and Textile Markets: A Joint General Equilibrium/Partial Equilibrium Approach," Journal of Applied Economics, vol. 42, Issue 7 (March 2010): 875-885.
Isengildina-Massa, O., S. MacDonald, and R. Xie. "A Comprehensive Evaluation of USDA Cotton Forecasts ," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 37 no. 1 (April 2012): 98-113.
MacDonald, S., S. Pan, D. Hudson, and F. Tuan. "Chinese Textile Demand: Where They Buy Does Matter," China Agricultural Economic Review, (forthcoming).
Just, D., L. Mancino, and B. Wansink. "Could Behavioral Economics Help Improve Diet Quality for Nutrition Assistance Program Participants?," Economics, Management, and Financial Markets, vol. 5, no. 2 (2010): 174-209.
Mancino, L., and F. Kuchler. "Demand for Whole-Grain Bread Before and After the Release of the Dietary Guidelines," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, vol. 34, no. 1 (2012): 76-101.
Marshall, E., M. Weinberg, S. Wunder, and T. Kaphengst. "Environmental Dimensions of Bioenergy Development," EuroChoices, vol. 10, no. 3 (December 2011): 43-49.
Hand, M., and S. Martinez. "Just What Does Local Mean?," Choices, vol. 25, no. 1 (First Quarter 2010): 4 pp.
Martinez, S. "Pork Quality and Marketing Contracts in the U.S. Pork Industry," British Food Journal, vol. 114, no. 3 (March 2012): 302-317.
McConnell, M., K. Mathews, R. Johnson, and K. Jones. "U.S. Red Meat Production from Foreign-Born Animals," Agricultural Sciences, vol. 3. no. 2: 201-7.
Mathews, K., K. Jones, and R. Johnson. "Trade-Adjusted Measures of Productivity Increases in U.S. Hog Production," Agricultural Systems, no. 114 (2012): 32-37.
Mathews, K. "The Market for U.S. Livestock Feed Proteins," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, (forthcoming).
Jilcott, S., J. Moore, K. Shores, S. Imai, and D. McGranahan. "Association between natural amenities, physical activity, and body mass index in 100 North Carolina counties," American Journal of Health Promotion, vol. 26, no. 1 (September/October 2011): 52-55.
McGranahan, D., T. Wojan, and D. Lambert. "The Rural Growth Trifecta: Outdoor Amenities, Creative Class and Entrepreneurial Context," Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 11, no. 3 (May 2011): 529-557.
Chen, W., M. Marchant, and A. Muhammad. "China's Soybean Product Imports: An Analysis of Price Effects using a Production System Approach," China Agricultural Economic Review, (forthcoming).
Harris, A., B. Brorsen, A. Muhammad, and J. Anderson. "Estimating a Demand System with Seasonally Differenced Data," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, vol. 42, no. 2 (May 2010): 321-335.
Muhammad, A. "Wine Demand in the United Kingdom and New World Structural Change: A Source-Disaggregated Analysis," Agribusiness: An International Journal, vol. 27, Issue 1 (Winter 2011): 82-98.
Muhammad, A., and K. Jones. "Source-Based Preferences and U.S. Salmon Imports," Marine Resource Economics, vol. 26, no.3, (2011):191-209.
Muhammad, A., S. Neal, T. Hanson, and K. Jones. "The Impact of Catfish Imports on the U.S. Wholesale and Farm Sector," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, vol. 39, no. 3 (October 2010): 429-441.
Muhammad, A., and H. Zheng. "Dynamic Effects of Grain and Energy Prices on the Catfish Feed and Farm Sectors," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, vol. 42, Issue 4 (November 2010): 719-730.
Ngeleza, G., and A. Muhammad. "Preferential Trade Agreements between the Monetary Community of Central Africa and the European Union: Stumbling or Building Blocks? A General Equilibrium Approach," Journal of International Development, (forthcoming).
Muhammad, A., L. McPhail, and J. Kiawu. "Do U.S. Cotton Subsidies Affect Competing Exporters? An Analysis of Import Demand in China," Journal of Applied and Agricultural Economics, vol. 44, no.2, pp 1-15.
Muhammad, A. "Source Diversification and Import Price Risk," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 94, no. 3 (2012):801-814.
Gillespie, J., R. Nehring, C. Hallahan, C. Sandretto, and L. Tauer. "Adoption of Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin and Farm Profitability: Does Farm Size Matter?," AgBioForum, vol. 13, no. 3 (2010): 251-262.
Pruitt, J., J. Gillespie, R. Nehring, and B. Qushim. "Adoption of Technology, Management Practices, and Production Systems by U.S. Beef Cow-calf Producers," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, vol. 40, no. 2 (May 2012): 203-222.
Newman, C., J. Todd, and M. Ver Ploeg. "Children’s Participation in Multiple Food Assistance Programs: Changes from 1990 to 2008," Social Service Review, vol. 85, no. 4 (2011): 535-564.
Newman, C. "The Food Costs of Healthier School Lunches," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, vol. 41, no.1 (April 2012):12–28.
Lee, J., M. Johnson, A. Brown, and M. Nord. "Food Security of Older Adults Requesting Older Americans Act Nutrition Program in Georgia Can Be Validly Measured Using a Short Form of the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module," Journal of Nutrition, vol. 141 (July 2011): 1362-1368. doi: 10.3945/jn.111.139378.
Nord, M., and A. Coleman-Jensen. "Food Insecurity after Leaving SNAP," Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition, vol. 5, no 4 (2010): 434-453.
Nord, M., and L. Parker. "How Adequately Are Food Needs of Children in Low-Income Households Being Met?," Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 32, no. 9 (2010): 1175-1185. DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.03.005.
Wilde, P., M. Nord, and R. Zager. "In longitudinal data from the survey of Program Dynamics, 16.9% of the U.S. population was exposed to household food insecurity in a five-year period," Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition, vol. 5, no. 3 (2010): 380-398.
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